Farming Matters | 29.4 | December 2013
The year of 2014 has been proclaimed by the UN as the International Year of Family Farming. As several articles in
this issue of Farming Matters point put, it makes a great deal of sense to strengthen family farming.
In contrast of to what many believe, family farming is not outside, but part of global economy. And young family farmers are discovering a future in agriculture by working with, rather than against, nature.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial – Women and ecology matter by Edith van Walsum
Opinion: This is the moment by José Antonio Osaba, Lauro Lorenzo
Small-scale farmers, big change by Zakir Hussain, G.V. Ramanjaneyulu, G. Rajasekhar, N R Chandrashekhar
2014: Hope for family farmers by Fatou Batta
Learning from new peasants by Vincent Delobel
Agro-ecology: beyond food by Georges Félix
Mind! > New Print by Pietsje Wijbenga
When family farmers lead their own development by Laure Guibert